Program: electronic library and information systems: Volume 45 Issue 3

Going social at Vancouver Public Library: what the virtual branch did next

The purpose of this paper is to follow up on the 2009 publication “Building a virtual branch at Vancouver Public Library (VPL) using Web 2.0 tools” and to explore the work that…

Information searching behaviour of young Slovenian researchers

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an empirical study of information behaviour of young Slovenian researchers.

Graduate students' usage of and attitudes towards e‐books: experiences from Taiwan

University libraries are increasing their e‐book collections. The purpose of this study is to investigate graduate students' usage of and attitudes towards e‐books at National…

Impact of using information technology in central university libraries in India: Results of a survey

The purpose of this article is to present the results of a research study conducted to assess the perceptions and opinions of 100 staff working in libraries on the impact of using…

Special features of the advanced loans module of the ABCD integrated library system

The “advanced loans” module of the relatively new library software, ABCD, is an addition to the normal loans module and it offers a “generic transaction decision‐making engine”…

People's Collection Wales: Online access to the heritage of Wales from museums, archives and libraries

The People's Collection Wales aims to collect, interpret, distribute and discuss Wales' cultural heritage in an online environment. Individual users or local history societies are…

Perceptions of library staff regarding challenges of developing digital libraries: The case of an Iranian university

The present research aims to identify the difficulties and obstacles for developing digital libraries in the seven regional branches of Islamic Azad University (IAU), Iran, and to…

Being an Information Innovator

New Approaches to E‐reserve: Linking, Sharing and Streaming

RFID for Libraries: A Practical Guide

Information Literacy in the Digital Age: An Evidence‐based Approach

Note on the change of Editor